EmersonHarvard University Press, 2004-09-30 - 416 psl. "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man," Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote--and in this book, the leading scholar of New England literary culture looks at the long shadow Emerson himself has cast, and at his role and significance as a truly American institution. On the occasion of Emerson's 200th birthday, Lawrence Buell revisits the life of the nation's first public intellectual and discovers how he became a "representative man." |
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... less famous but no less important. As I've already suggested, Emerson was the kind of person who repeatedly put his prior certainties under question, even when he had thrashed through a subject many times before. So too with this book ...
... less promising than his three Harvardattending brothers. “I was the true philosopher in college,” he later mused, and his teachers “Mr Farrar & Mr Hedge & Dr Ware were the false. Yet what seemed then to me less probable?” (JMN 4: 292) ...
... less credible spokesman for American democratization and cultural pluralism than Frederick Douglass or even Harriet Beecher Stowe and James Fenimore Cooper. My own approach is more respectful than debunking, but it differs from most ...
... less famous but no less important. As I've already suggested, Emerson was the kind of person who repeatedly put his prior certainties under question, even 6 when he had thrashed through a subject many times introduction.
... less a “nation” than a project. Its finances were rickety, its politics faction-ridden, the union precarious, national security threatened by European and North African powers. Its intelligentsia were painfully self-conscious of living ...
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2 Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
3 Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
4 Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
5 Emerson as a Philosopher? | 199 |
Emerson and Abolition | 242 |
7 Emerson as AntiMentor | 288 |
Notes | 337 |
Acknowledgments | 383 |
Index | 385 |